The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  Gan for to wepe and so did Emelye
                                
                                  And all the ladyes in the cumpanye
                                
                                  Grete pite was yt as yt thoght hem all
                                
                                  That euer soch a chaunce shold fall
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                                  ffor gentell men they were of grete astate
                                
                                  And no thing but for loue was this debate
                                
                                  And saugh her blody woundes wyde and sore
                                
                                  And all cryden both las and more
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                                  Haue mercy lord vpon vs [[vs overline]]  wemen all
                                
                                  And on her bare knees adoun they fall
                                
                                  And wold haue kist his fete there as he stode
                                
                                  Till at the last aslaked was his mode [Eg. 2726 folio 23a] 
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                                  ffor pitee renneth sone in gentell herte
                                
                                  And þough he first for Ire quoke and sterte
                                
                                  He hath considred shortly in a clause
                                
                                  The trespas of hem both and eke the cause
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                                  And all though that his Ire her gilt accused
                                
                                  yit in his reason he hem both excused
                                
                                  As thus he thought wele that euery man
                                
                                  woll help hym self in loue yf that he can
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                                  And deliuere hym self out of prison
                                
                                  And eke his hert hade compassion
                                
                                  Of wommen for they wepen euery in one
                                
                                  And in his gentle hert he þought anone [[line by corrector]] 
                                
                                  And softe vn-to hym self he seide fye
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                                  Vp-on a lord that woll haue no mercy
                                
                                  But ben a lyon both in worde and dede
                                
                                  To hem that ben in repentaunce and drede
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                                  As wele as to a proude dispitous man
                                
                                  That woll maintene that he first bygan
                                
                                  That lord hath litell of discrecion
                                
                                  That in soch cas can no deuysion
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                                  But weyeth pride and humbles after one
                                
                                  And shortly whan his Ire ys thus agone
                                
                                  He gan to loken vp with yeen light
                                
                                  And spak thise same wordes all on hight

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 51
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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